Thomas E. Cravens

Thomas E. Cravens is an American space physicist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas. He is known for developing the widely accepted model explaining the emission of X-rays from comets, a phenomenon discovered unexpectedly in 1996.

Early life and education

Cravens received his B.A. in physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1970. * Outer Planets: He has studied auroral processes and atmospheric interactions at Jupiter and Saturn. of the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn. This instrument was key in postulating a much younger age for the rings of Saturn than previously thought.

Awards and recognition 2018: Fellow of the AAAS and Google Scholar.